James Hurlock

James Hurlock, a former chairman and partner at White & Case who oversaw a massive expansion of the firm during the last two decades of the 20th century, died on April 27. He was 82. Hurlock, who lived in Greenwich, Connecticut, was born in Chicago in 1933 and raised in Cleveland. He completed his undergraduate work at Princeton University in 1955 and received a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University during his time there. After obtaining his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1959, Hurlock joined White & Case. In 1963, he moved his family to Paris and spent two years there before returning to New York. In 1967, he made partner and was put in charge of the firm's Brussels office. Four years later, he opened an office in London and led it until 1975, when he returned to the United States for the rest of his career. In 1980, Hurlock became chair of the firm and held that title until his retirement in 2000. During that time, he helped to grow White & Case from a New York-based white shoe firm to a global practice with attorneys in more than 90 countries. Hurlock was a trustee of the Corporation of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, where he also served as chairman.